NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will flyby 2014 MU69

January 1, 2019

It visited Pluto in 2015, and kept going. Now NASA’s New Horizons probe will pass near 2014 MU69, a mysterious object far out beyond Neptune. Scientists hope to learn more about how the solar system formed as they study this body in the Kuiper belt. See New Horizons’ first picture of 2014 MU69 here: https://nyti.ms/2BZgdlb